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06-04-2008, 09:07 PM | #1 |
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Does God take pleasure in punishing the wicked?
These verses say he does
Deuteronomy 28:63 Just as it pleased the Lord to prosper you and make you increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. Psalm 135:6-8 6 The LORD does whatever pleases him, in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths. 7 He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth; he sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses. 8 He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, the firstborn of men and animals. These verses say he does not: Ezekiel 18:23 Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live? Lamentations 3:31-33 31 For men are not cast off by the Lord forever. 32 Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. 33 For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men. |
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